Food Stamps - Not appreciated, but expected

[VOL 425]

When did people decide that getting free handouts were the norm in life. Me I have never once got food stamps, If I was hungry and needed money I got a job. I just watched the video it is disgusting that people go along in live and expect the Federal Government to basically feed them and their children.

What have we cultivated in our society, A bunch of leeches....

[Póg mo 1,749]

When did people decide that getting free handouts were the norm in life. Me I have never once got food stamps, If I was hungry and needed money I got a job. I just watched the video it is disgusting that people go along in live and expect the Federal Government to basically feed them and their children.

What have we cultivated in our society, A bunch of leeches....

This system is messed up, the country has given trillions in government subsidies to Farmers, corporate interests i.e defense contractors, oil companies, insurance companies, auto industries and then we the financial industry that less than seven years ago, bankrupted half globe. Despite of all these subsidies, they still demand more. A similar argument is used to justify cutting back on already cut to the bone welfare programs, but I guess poor Americans should also count for less than members of our countries elite.

It's almost as if people have some form of illness that only allows them to get outraged over certain things. Interestingly enough the out rage only seems to focused on minorities and liberals.

Can you me to understand why this is so? Could it possible be due to the near complete disengagement of ordinary Americans from politics, except around certain politically safe issues, that our politicians don't feel threatened to talk about, thanks to the near complete gerrymandering of political constituencies? Are you too stupid to understand how you are being played?

Edited June 7, 2015 by Póg mo

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

The last woman interviewed there was a cancer patient, VOL. Without medicaid, she couldn't afford her cancer medication and she was nearly out of her cancer meds.

Do you honestly believe that a cancer patient should be able to somehow manage to maintain the correct amount of work attendance not to lose their job, in spite of the way that chemotherapy ravages the body? Or do you just think we should line cancer patients up in front of a firing squad so they stop costing money?

[Póg mo 1,749]

The last woman interviewed there was a cancer patient, VOL. Without medicaid, she couldn't afford her cancer medication and she was nearly out of her cancer meds.

Do you honestly believe that a cancer patient should be able to somehow manage to maintain the correct amount of work attendance not to lose their job, in spite of the way that chemotherapy ravages the body? Or do you just think we should line cancer patients up in front of a firing squad so they stop costing money?

Why didn't she get a job? What you think having cancer is a excuse? She ain't white or a member of my immediate family, so I don't know why she should get a red cent from. Big businesses clearly need my tax dollars more than she does.

[Póg mo 1,749]

Seriously though, I don't quite understand how anyone could justify cutting food stamps, because they happen to earn a dollar over a arbitrary amount. We are told over and over how people on food stamps are milking the system, but if the same folks see nothing wrong with punish them immediately if the get a better job. How idiotic is that? It's almost as if some folks want to maintain a permanent underclass, just so they, supposed middle can live cheaper.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

My problem with this woud be the innocent children. They didn't ask for this life or these parents.

That being said, have they never heard of a food bank or soup kitchen?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

My problem with this woud be the innocent children. They didn't ask for this life or these parents.

That being said, have they never heard of a food bank or soup kitchen?

Out of six food pantries in their area, four require photo id--which costs money. Of the two which do not, one is open for only three hours per month and the other only distributes food once per month. Of the ones that do require photo ID, one is only open on Fridays. The others are open only 2-3 days per week, for about two hours each time. If a person has a part time job or even a full time job that simply does not grant enough money to be able to make ends meet, how are they supposed to be able to access these resources on a regular basis to stay off food stamps? These people were getting food stamps and doing fine and then suddenly their foodstamps did not come at all, leaving them without money they had budgeted for, without warning.

BTW: I cannot find any soup kitchens in Clayton County.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Out of six food pantries in their area, four require photo id--which costs money. Of the two which do not, one is open for only three hours per month and the other only distributes food once per month. Of the ones that do require photo ID, one is only open on Fridays. The others are open only 2-3 days per week, for about two hours each time. If a person has a part time job or even a full time job that simply does not grant enough money to be able to make ends meet, how are they supposed to be able to access these resources on a regular basis to stay off food stamps? These people were getting food stamps and doing fine and then suddenly their foodstamps did not come at all, leaving them without money they had budgeted for, without warning.

BTW: I cannot find any soup kitchens in Clayton County.

Good to know, thanks.

I guess the problem is why did the foodstamps stop suddenly?

Edit: this story is from 2011?

Edited June 7, 2015 by Transborderwife

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Good to know, thanks.

I guess the problem is why did the foodstamps stop suddenly?

Edit: this story is from 2011?

If I remember correctly, it turned out to be a computer glitch and as long as the computer was messed up, the social services folks couldn't determine anything at all to help these people. I had a friend who was affected at the time in another state--it was an issue to do with software used in a lot of places. (Incidentally, my friend had just had a kidney removed due to the fact that it had died and was necrotic and was unable to work for a couple of years while she was in physiotherapy because they nicked a nerve that controlled her left leg)

Edited June 7, 2015 by Not a Tailor

[Boiler 43,392]

With 6 children how much would you have to earn to make it worthwhile?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Out of six food pantries in their area, four require photo id--which costs money. Of the two which do not, one is open for only three hours per month and the other only distributes food once per month. Of the ones that do require photo ID, one is only open on Fridays. The others are open only 2-3 days per week, for about two hours each time. If a person has a part time job or even a full time job that simply does not grant enough money to be able to make ends meet, how are they supposed to be able to access these resources on a regular basis to stay off food stamps? These people were getting food stamps and doing fine and then suddenly their foodstamps did not come at all, leaving them without money they had budgeted for, without warning.

BTW: I cannot find any soup kitchens in Clayton County.

Food stamps require an ID also. Stupid excuse

[Boiler 43,392]

Attending Obama events requires photo ID.

[bowens44 213]

What we have cultivated is a bunch of selfish greedy people who would rather rather see the poor die then help them with food or healthcare.

[Boiler 43,392]

I think most people are happy to help people in need, but less keen when it is seen as a lifestyle choice.

[Póg mo 1,749]

With 6 children how much would you have to earn to make it worthwhile?

Poor people tend to have large families. Something to do with feeling helpless and the system almost being designed to keep them from escaping poverty. Self righteous fools think the best way to help folks is to make them desperate, and if that desperation leads to prison, then great, good Christian folks get to benefit from lucrative contracts in building and running said prisons.